Douglas Scotney Poems

Denebola
is from arabic
dhanab al-assad,
which means 'the tail of the lion'.
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Long time was it thought so
that 'girt' had to be the first to go;

for 'zoned' perhaps:
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'A cure' is an old term for 'an odd person',
that I'm pretty sure won't come back as that.

There's too much baggage on 'queer';
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Though SKISCHULE is on the front,
because my cap is red,
people think I'm into Trump.
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After a drive through the Adelaide Hills
on 9 Jan 2021,
in the height of the agapanthus flowering season,
I sleuthed,
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When 'to be full up' appears,
appears to be space's purpose,

surplus detractors in France
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Arabic 'jinni' is singular; 'jinn' is plural.
The second 'i' in 'jinni' is long.

Jann being the least powerful jinn,
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It didn't exist pre-now,
but it's easy to see
what a 'promission' might be:
a scout.
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(I omit subtraction,
division and fractionation.)

For 'fun', it's 8 + 1;
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Chronic historians,
for mojo,
start books halfway through,
then mine the first half
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